My new strategy is to book the lowest thing I can find, no matter how bad the trip, and hope for schedule changes and flight changes that makes the trip better. On AA metal because they’re more willing to help.

for instance, I was looking at flights to go from Los Angeles to Europe in J this summer with our family of five- one day I found a random flight for 57,000 miles, that was Los Angeles to Seattle with a bad layover to London. Well, I booked it, and figured something might change in the next seven months with the schedule.

this week I read on the site that they have canceled Seattle to London flights, I checked my app, and all five of us were booked into the direct LAX to London flight this June, which was pricing at like 200,000 miles each when I booked, but now I have it for the 57,000 miles I booked for the bad itinerary.

it’s a game of risk and certainly helps that I’m concierge key, but I didn’t have to ask or have anything done. In this day and age everything is changing so fast, sometimes you just wanna put your chips on the table and wait to see what happens. Especially when those chips are refundable.